An' all those funny helmets like toadstools popped up in the air an' somebody gave a yell an' the light went out an' the damn grenade went off.

~ ~ ~ Sentence 1,320 ~ ~ ~

"Well, fellers," said Sergeant Jones, the sombre man who rarely spoke, "I certainly didn't reckon when I used to be teachin' and preachin' and tendin' Sunday School and the like that I'd come to be usin' cuss words, but I think we got a damn good company."

~ ~ ~ Sentence 1,321 ~ ~ ~

"Oh, we'll have you sayin' worse things than 'damn' when we get you out on the front with a goddam German aeroplane droppin' bombs on you," said the top sergeant, slapping him on the back.

An' the loot was a hell of a blockhead that didn't know if he was coming or going."

~ ~ ~ Sentence 1,595 ~ ~ ~

He shot the juice into her an' went off like a bat out of hell an' there was a hell of a lot of traffic on the road because there was some damn-fool attack or other goin' on.

~ ~ ~ Sentence 1,598 ~ ~ ~

They put me in the Bastille, great place.... Then they shipped me off to some damn camp or other an' gave me a gun an' made me drill for a week an' then they packed a whole gang of us, all A. W. O. L's, into a train for the front.

There was one little hill where we'd have to get out and shove every damn time, the mud was so deep, and God, it stank there with the shells turning up the ground all full of mackabbies as the poilus call them.... Say, Dook, have you got any money?"

"God, I'd like to have wrung that damn little parson's neck," said Andrews suddenly.

~ ~ ~ Sentence 5,070 ~ ~ ~

"Damn," said a voice, and the figure darted through a grimy glass door that bore the sign: "Buvette."

~ ~ ~ Sentence 5,114 ~ ~ ~

"Not a damn thing, and I daren't go out of the station on account of the M.P.

~ ~ ~ Sentence 5,205 ~ ~ ~

Imagine coming back here after the highlands of Thibet, where you'd nearly got drowned and scalped and had made love to the daughter of an Afghan chief... who had red lips smeared with loukoumi so that the sweet taste stayed in your mouth."

But hell, it was damn impolite of him not to drink.... No use wasting time with a man who don't drink.

~ ~ ~ Sentence 6,623 ~ ~ ~

"I was going to tell you, Henny," said Aubrey, "the dope is that the President's going to leave the conference, going to call them all damn blackguards to their faces and walk out, with the band playing the 'Internationale.'"

Oi don't know how you pronounce the bloody town.... Oi was on my bike making about thoity for the road was all a-murk when Oi saw four buggers standing acrost the road...lookter me suspicious- like, so Oi jus' jammed the juice into the boike and made for the middle 'un.

~ ~ ~ Sentence 7,722 ~ ~ ~

"It stifles you very slowly, with beautiful silk bands.... America beats your brains out with a policeman's billy."

~ ~ ~ Sentence 8,201 ~ ~ ~

"An" the damn fool thinks he's in a school battalion," said Handsome in his shrill voice.

~ ~ ~ Sentence 8,209 ~ ~ ~

"Ye won't be gettin' good cognac where yer goin', Skinny, not by a damn sight," growled Bill Huggis in the middle of a laugh.